Quotes from Mark Driscoll

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.

The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Fear is vision without hope.

Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.